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the newspaper columnist prefers his latest article is the next person politics and military affairs. he's published over $75.00 optical within 2 and a half years between audiences in more than a dozen west african countries. here's a person with a francophone sounding name, who seems to be a legitimate profile, published in a legitimate paper or on my new site. there is a problem the articles are not written by the man whose name appears in the bi line . i'll just say it was investigative unit, found that the reports are part of a shudder. we propaganda campaign in french speaking africa and this particular one is very interesting. yeah, i meant is backed,

you've had the french so forces in place for decades. and the security situation has looked improved. it gives the impression that they are on occupation for the are unit follows a trailer clues that lead to a man with a history of manipulating truth from africa to the united states. its own covers, a world of the section where names and images of the dead are used to create false identities that there yes, i felt like a big was to you know, that don't go, dyna. do you see on our site every month on the nose and casual in on in, on the after years of declining revenue, smaller media outlets throughout west africa develop new ways of funding that

business. would that go to wonderful good values on without the without it was it and for us do live or feat open production when was able to do this when invalid is uh, annual with it. okay. well, i mean it may feel good. we'll see folks in the shop, i'm gonna presume i'll give you the like many media around the world news platforms in africa, work with sponsored contents articles funded by companies who want to advertise the products or services or something doesn't need to pay for c plus goods tempe or putting it in a competitive or the go to the positive and both the, you know, i don't know. so, you know, find out on searching on $5.00 on top of that, don't you worry about being needed. he seems to be able to pick up the unit seller . there's one of these these paid articles do not always print the products.

some of them discuss current affairs. all just areas i units examines hundreds of article was published in back, you know, fresh and elsewhere in west africa. they cover regional politics. the name of one right to keeps coming up. the political in minutes, the analyst eyeglass. you have, you don't go by the according to the social media. don't go by god is a political scientist amid a treat observer from the central african republic. now, based in paris, talk about us articles are critical to french involvement in the francophone countries of west and central africa. focuses specifically on the countries presents in the south region just south of us. the harvard business funds

wants to maintain funds for free, which is a political system whereby colonial friends keeps all the former colonies in check . so that'd be continued on milk. the country of its resources. if we make them assessment of the sources of frances wealth, natural resources, where there are source and everything we know in france had, let's start with africa, colombia, we cannot find out behind african countries. i'm not happy idle. and the ones to level the playing field after this is the countries hours pro they just want to get the benefit of what is due them don't go. but does articles are critical of one aspect of french involvement. in particular,

the presence of french soldiers in the south region froze has what they call a bilateral defense on grievance. with all these for my color, nice web, i'm friends with patient it's friends, special forces, vintage country, you've had the friends, so force us in place for decades and dispute the situation has left improved. it gives the impression that they are on occupation for this thing. the french system is that it was well, it was out of touch. it was telling people that everything's fine when people's sick, that it's not fine from tried to control an area the size of pretty much europe with the force of the 10000 man. the i unit finds that don't go, but as article goes along with news reports, quoting came of a p and at least

a dozen countries throughout west and the central africa. most of these articles focus on the phones as role in the region. the volume of his output along with references to him on google, with to reassure edits is that he was a season and reliable column is what on that? and then tell me the i can do it. i say probably need to do what uh, is it the best one, justin inform us. you know, the u. s. contract these new wizard pages, you printed samples deals and those things are mostly welcome. feels on the oh going through town is a gen is to publishers one of the to goes news websites. definitely. and especially e bonacre's in lots of i don't know just on coffee k dunk fitness. i'm interested to contact you. there's not a contract, so i'm not going to be i units examination of don't go by job. finds troubling

signs. so for out of it appears out of nowhere. in february 2021. there is no record of his education. no signs of him being connected to think tanks or universities and no employment history. the analysis of the picture is used by don't go back on social media leads to a troubling discovery. don't go but the has the same face as a man, very joining a funeral in the central african republic. the inside the coffin is a body of joan, called cindy, only a school teacher, his former student is commemorates him on facebook. the centrality also worked as

a referee for the central african football association. his name was featured in fee for the victory list of 2020 talk about us social media and all the goals begun to appear only months of to send to you already passed away. the idea here is this is a legitimate person. they've created an entire background for him. they've given him a twitter account. they've given him a new name. and you look at this and you say ok, he's got 2 years. this looks like a real person, and we're going to trust this. this must be someone who actually exists. you know, until this is for nearly a own purse. this essentially you name all the so someone whether a state or a non state architect or is using the identity of someone who's died to do the arrow. and either

a propaganda who is really behind this propaganda campaign. audra 0 obtain once on messages between a media organization and the middle 9 to approach the several websites to publish all schools by talking about the and other site journalists the this middle name is o'brien could tell the total go based journalist who himself published some of the articles, good evening stuff. my name is open, cortez totally is john list. i don't know if the website to day media 24 dot com i would like to know the conditions of publishing and already edited all of school on your website. what is the nature of

the article cartons? it says politics. okay, we will have a look. and if it aligns with our editorial guidelines, we will publish it. okay, the, the editor notices that something is missing. article not signed. oh, i'm sorry. go ahead. gloss susie, don't go by the military of the research and political studies. the funny thing i'm p gates, the diesel father. and so he got people are going to be probably a little note there is i felt like a gloss. you know, that don't go by now a to say send the, come up and call, send

a bunch of really make me don't code one, i think on the button and get them to get. when it comes in a g can come to the site. there's been a while been offset about shopping law. so it could have been, but i see all the best thing about it, even though it is on people who need it to be on the needle. good evening, my friend. hello. good. it's been a while. i have an article for you, the clients agrees with $50000.00 west african francs to tell then cents in proof of payment equivalent to about $85.00 us dollars. well received the this is a cut and dry information monitoring techniques. they're going to trust, but here's a person with a francophone sounding name, who seems to be a legitimate profile, published in

a legitimate paper or on my new site. and they're likely to take that at face value a let them in the case, i think the data essentially a problem with you to think you have every this basis to say the same case shown to come from the 70 vision gives you a new source to do new and got them also say said boss, abide reinforcing the do mis published. it was in our investigation shows that to tell was an intermediary to approach journalist to get drunk about does articles published even paypal because we community this or is that you could sense even by st. you know, if all my show all the got the feel of it on file, i still have to refresh. it shows how vigilant we all need to be in the digital era to understand who is writing to us, why they're writing to us,

where they're coming from, who might be paying for it. some people are just going to feel of fatigue by all of that, knowing that so much bakery is out there to identify the client to tell, spoke about the are unit examines or method. days in the word documents could tell, forwarded the meta data or tiny bits of information attached to each file on the computer. they can reveal details, it's all hidden, such as when a file was created or who created it. in this case, the method dates are roughly of the web title maintenance, the risk the alphabet used in eastern european countries, such as russia and ukraine. then something else stood out in one of the files in the last saved by called them. there was a series of seemingly random numbers. the string of digits,

a pin to resemble the telephone number that started with the number 7, the country code for russia. the rest of ammo for a long time has been to identify fissures or grievances and society, which post colonialism and post colonial distaste for the west has been one in africa for a long time. and so really tear at those fisher. so to hear the fabric of society, of parts much as a template gaining influence in west africa, all right. dogs with, from cisco, russian fonts of natural competitors in those, in those regions. because russia is waiting for the areas of funds of supplies or has occupied process may be quite clear that they would prefer and african countries to deal with them rather than russia. actually, sometimes we have won't go into recruiting for the restaurants,

deal with us each day. the population of those countries are tired of the existing social economic they don't said working for them. and because no one seeing results the this confirm groves, of course russia uses this come down and this uses this, this content refer to that it cannot interest. russia is not trying to make line states out of the cycle. country rush has no interest to do that. no, actually the capacity to do, we're interested in making money. and because we're interested in making money, we can offer more, more like generous terms to those african nations than the french us suggest the colleges era has discovered that ends free is more than 200. all schools have been published as part of the russian campaign using at least 20 different names each of the countries where those articles appeared for seeing an

increased russian presence. molly nature and brought to you the 1st. so i've seen crude a talk, the broken governments that look more favor be until operations russia russia has used false amplifier stake accounts before, most notably in the us selection, but also in ukraine. the idea is to give the guise of grassroots support to the pro ration view point. and in this case, it's a view point that probably many people in africa agree with in the post colonial world. it gives them a bit more legitimacy. everybody does that. it's called building an influence network for any one who is familiar with the how this incidents complain in rustic itself around. there's nothing this is nothing special,

nothing new. to find the owner of the russian phone number in the match of data. we enter it in a coma i d app these actual the name of the corner, even if the number is nothing the phones address book. one can also search for the registered owner. when we enter the russian number, a name shows up, says the name is going name. so how did it end up in a document link to the russian propaganda campaign? because of the social media platforms are looking for ads purchased in rubles, or faith accounts created by russia. russia has had to launder. it's just information. it has had to pay middleman and individuals to ensure that that information gets out there. as we entered assessable i'm putting into skype,

and it shows his full name, says quantum. we would, according to skype account, he lives in the russian city of norfolk road news article will show. he moves that in 2008. the record showed he owns a translation service based enough girl and works with an english to utah the we access, we would use tech schools which reveal it by june 2019 to you to obtain russian citizenship and we find that the man we linked to this campaign as being on the radio of, of a news organizations. in 2020 cnn reveal that the russian, the company called the internet research agency, or the i r a hired people in nigeria and gone to, to press politically inflammatory content ahead of the us elections. the person in

charge of the campaign was set square or do how long have you been working for the i or a for the 12 factory in looks in petersburg last year. so what i don't know, i don't know what i already, so i consider them looking for according to a us government investigation, the internet research agency was heavily involved in russian interference in the 2016 us presidential election. the these operations constituted, quote, active measures a term that typically refers to operations conducted by russian security services aimed at influencing the course of international affairs. we know that russia was able not only to get information in to the american public spear in 2016,

but to get people to change their behavior offline as well. we do know that because of russian, this information people showed up for protests, tangible behavior that was caused by russian interference in the election process. despite the nines involvement with the internet research agency, we were do a page and a film that is linked directly to the russian troll factors. the action physical tourist tells the story of russian military offices in the central african republic. the task is to prevent a crew from taking place so you just never engage with the debates of granted doubled them. no, just get it back on us. use very low tech stuff. i mean, sure it's, and i mean here we are do plays the role of maxime, a preacher who's helping the to process as to the

starting rates or at least get on on your pros, temperature, if it's not, i mean, you know that and i'm not sure if i did you, actually, if i did, the filling is funded by the wagner group, a private military company with close ties to the russian government and headquarters in st. petersburg. wagner was founded by the same man whose thoughts of the internet research agency do. you have any pre goes for goes and died in a suspicious playing crush. in 2023 after challenging brushes. president putin when progressing passed. the 1st thing that happened was said a lot for of the foreign minister made direct contact to central african republic. monday about african countries will recommend plays a key role that, oh, the progression is passed for the police remains the same, obviously stay the same. and its business as usual,

precaution built up this huge empire of information and military assets, and that's been absolutely taken over by the kremlin at this point. and the idea of a political emissions are very much the same for russia as well as friends, local media have been an important aspect of the geo political ambitions. both countries need the media to get support from the population, but the way they use it is different. fonts needs to keep the local media under risk control. why would you rate this operation when you have the biggest newspaper in the country when you find out the major teenagers in the country and stuff like that? when you find those, the interest is in the country. the russians boost page propaganda. and it would be obviously to see that this is again with friends. it's not actually propaganda,

but it's actually done through the prostate to media. it's much more institutionalized, but it's still the same. and so i'm sure we got the money is known as optics. all going to equal digit fast, we can here says the impact, do y'all place config adult? they all have the same. i can't really do fluid influence every month on the same page in on, in, on the,

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